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PRLog - Jan. 26, 2015 - PARIS, France – As part of World Thinking Day 2015, USA Girl Scouts Overseas in Paris is reintroducing their Paris Peace Patch in response to the recent tragic events that have taken place in Paris.World Thinking Day is set aside on February 22nd by Girl Scouts and Guides to participate in activities and projects with global themes to honor and think about their “sisters” in all the countries throughout the world.

The theme for this year’s World Thinking Day is “Girls worldwide say “We can create peace through partnerships.” and is focused on people coming together for peace. The purpose of reintroducing the USA Girl Scouts in Paris Peace Patchis as a response to the recent tragic events that have taken place in Paris, and to encourage girls to:

Through this program, Girl Scouts learn about peace through games, role-playing, guided discussions and crafts. When completed, girls are encouraged to hold a Peace Ceremony with their troop, including poems, songs, and readings, for family and friends. Read more…

Every three years, Girl Scouts from all over the globe gather together at the National Council Session and Convention to reinvigorate our Movement, celebrate our accomplishments, and chart our future. This year, Girl Scouts in Paris Overseas Committee Co-Chair, Kim Petyt was selected as one of 7 delegates to represent USA Girl Scouts Overseas at the 2014 Girl Scout National Council Session and 53rd Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining delegates from Japan, Germany, Hong Kong and Italy, Kim was honored to represent USA Girl Scouts in France.

The event, held at Salt Palace Convention Center, kicked-off on October 16th with a welcome video message from First Lady Michelle Obama, followed by a procession of flags from all 146 countries where Girl Scouts/Girl Guides are represented. Highlights of the opening ceremony also included welcomes from GSUSA’s CEO Anna Maria Chavez, the mayor of Salt Lake City, and an incredibly inspiring message from keynote speaker, mountain climber and author, Alison Levine. Read more…

GSUSA just announced this new, annual national voting process during the National Council Session at Girl Scout Convention. The four Outdoor Badges added to the Program in fall 2015 will include one each at the Brownie, Junior, Cadette, and Senior levels. To determine which badges will be added, GSUSA is using a “Girls’ Choice” process, meaning girls will take the lead on deciding which new badges will be created! Read more…

One of the biggest parties of the year for Girl Scouts in Paris is SongFest. Songfest is a traditional Girl Scout event where Girls and Volunteers get together to sing, laugh and socialize. Hosted by Cadette Troop 5, this years theme was “Girl Scouts, Girl Power, Girl’s Rock!” – and they certainly did! Read more…

Created decades ago and relaunched just this past autumn, the Girl Scouts of America GirlSports initiative was created to highlight all of the amazing sports and healthy-living activities that girls are involved in through Girl Scouts. GSUSA is proud to continue its’ century-long legacy of committing to girls’ leadership by actively engaging millions of girls in sports, nutrition, and healthy living.

In keeping with the spirit of #girlsports, Girl Scouts in Paris were thrilled to have had a recent opportunity to participate in a soccer clinic hosted by the Princeton Women’s Soccer Team. Read more…

PARIS, FRANCE, (March 17, 2014) – To cap off Girl Scout Week 2014 – a time set aside to celebrate the founding of Girl Scouts of America – USA Girl Scouts in Paris has launched a new Go Green Badge and is inviting Girl Scouts around the world to join them in taking their Go Green Pledge. Read more…

This past holiday season, for the second year in a row, Paris Girl Scouts Junior Troop 35 decided to address sanitation and hygiene as a service project. What most movies and tourism ads don’t show is that there are over 50,000 homeless or near-homeless people living in Paris alone. While The City of Paris offers free municipal showers where the needy can go to clean up, clients must come with their own toiletry items- items that many are not able to afford to buy. Junior Troop 35 chose to donate toiletry kits containing soap, shampoo, toothpaste and other basics to an agency that services this underprivileged community in Paris. Read more…

During the summer of 2012, the Alcoa Foundation provided a grant to expand the Girl Scouts 100th anniversary Take Action Project Girl Scouts Forever Green to take it globally to 20 countries. Alix Pouchol from USAGSO-Paris Senior/Ambassador Troop 7 was one of 16 girls from 8 countries chosen to go to Prague, Czech Republic for a week-end retreat to begin the project and global effort to educate others on how to improve the environment and protect natural resources. There, Alix and her sister scouts brainstormed ways to reuse, reduce, recycle, and repurpose. Read more…

Girl Scouts in Paris spent a gorgeous Indian Summer afternoon at Les Fermes de Gally, a local farm 20 minutes outside of Paris. The group picked apples, pumpkins and other seasonal treats, as well as raced wheelbarrows, went on a Nature Scavenger Hunt and enjoyed celebrating autumn with other USAGSO-Paris families. Click here for more images of our Fall festivities.